英语词源

• dream 英文词源 dream dream: [13] Old English had a word drēam , which meant ‘joy, merrymaking, music’, but it is not at all clear that this is the same word as modern English dream (the recorded Old English words for ‘dream’ were swefn and mǣting ). Semantically, the two are quite a long way apart, and on balance it seems more likely that Old English had a homonym * drēam ‘dream’, whi
• dreadnought 英文词源 Dreadnought (n.) "battleship," literally "fearing nothing," from dread (v.) + nought (n.). Mentioned as the name of a ship in the Royal Navy c. 1596, but modern sense is from the name of the first of a new class of British battleships, based on the "all big-gun" principle (armed with 10 big guns rather than 4 large guns and a battery of smaller ones), launched Feb. 18, 1906. 中文词源
• dreadlocks 英文词源 dreadlocks (n.) 1960, from dread + locks (see lock (n.2)). The style supposedly based on that of East African warriors. So called from the dread they presumably aroused in beholders, but Rastafarian dread (1974) also has a sense of "fear of the Lord," expressed in part as alienation from contemporary society. 中文词源 dreadlocks ：骇人长发绺 dread, 恐惧。locks, 发绺。原
• dread 英文词源 dread dread: [12] Old English had the verb ondrǣdan ‘fear’. Its first syllable is generally taken to be the prefix * and - ‘against’, which is related to German ent - ‘away, un-’ and Greek anti - (source of English anti -) and appears also in English answer . The second part, however, remains a mystery. There are one or two related forms in other West Germanic languages,
• dray 英文词源 dray dray: see draw dray (n.) mid-14c., Middle English noun derivative of Old English dragan "to draw," originally meaning a cart without wheels that has to be "dragged" (compare Old Norse draga "timber dragged behind a horse"); see drag (v.). 中文词源 dray ：平板马车 来自drag, 拉，引申义平板马车。比较tractor. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• drawl 英文词源 drawl (v.) 1590s, perhaps from Middle Dutch dralen , East Frisian draulen "to linger, delay," apparently an intensive of the root of draw (v.). Or else a native formation along the same lines. Related: Drawled ; drawling . As a noun from 1760. 中文词源 drawl ：拉长语调 来自draw, 拉。拉长语调音。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： drawl 词源，
• drawing room 英文词源 drawing room 1640s, short for withdrawing room (see withdraw ), into which ladies would go after dinner. 中文词源 drawing room ：起居室 来自withdrawing room的缩写词。在过去指内室，妇女用膳后休息的地方。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： drawing room 词源， drawing room 含义。
• drawing 英文词源 drawing (n.) c. 1300, "a pulling," in various senses, verbal noun from draw (v.). The "picture-making" sense is from 1520s; of the picture itself from 1660s. Drawing board is from 1725; used in figurative expression from mid-20c. 中文词源 drawing ：绘画 来自draw, 画画。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： drawing 词源， drawing 含义。 drawing ：绘图
• drawbridge 英文词源 drawbridge (n.) 14c., from draw (v.) + bridge (n.). 中文词源 drawbridge ：吊桥 即拉的桥，吊桥。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： drawbridge 词源， drawbridge 含义。
• drawback 英文词源 drawback (n.) "hindrance, disadvantage,"1720, from draw (v.) + back (adv.). The notion is of something that "holds back" success or activity. 中文词源 drawback ：缺点 即拉回来，引申义缺点。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： drawback 词源， drawback 含义。 drawback ：欠缺，缺点 词根词缀： draw拉 + back回 → 扯后腿,造成缺陷
• draw 英文词源 draw draw: [OE] The Old English ancestor of modern English draw was dragan , which came from a prehistoric Germanic verb * dragan (source also of English drag ). This seems to have meant originally ‘carry’ (which is what its German and Dutch descendants tragen and dragen still mean). In English and the Scandinavian languages, however (Swedish draga , for instance), it has evolved
• Dravidian 英文词源 Dravidian (adj.) 1856, "pertaining to the race in southern India or the languages spoken by them," from Sanskrit Dravidah , name of a region in southern India, + -ian . 中文词源 Dravidian ：印度南部达罗毗荼人 来自梵语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： Dravidian 词源， Dravidian 含义。
• draughty 英文词源 draughty (adj.) 1846, from draught + -y (2). 中文词源 draughty ：有穿堂风的 来自draught, 通风气流。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： draughty 词源， draughty 含义。
• draughtsman 英文词源 draughtsman (n.) 1660s, from genitive of draught + man (n.). 中文词源 draughtsman ：西洋跳棋棋盘 来自draught, 棋子，西洋跳棋。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： draughtsman 词源， draughtsman 含义。
• draught 英文词源 draught draught: [12] Draught and draft are essentially the same word, but draft (more accurately representing its modern English pronunciation) has become established since the 18th century as the spelling for ‘preliminary drawing or plan’, ‘money order’, and (in American English) ‘conscription’. The word itself probably comes from an unrecorded Old Norse * drahtr , an ab
• drat 英文词源 drat 1815, disguised form of exclamation God rot (something or someone). 中文词源 drat ：诅咒，咒骂 来自god rat的委婉语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： drat 词源， drat 含义。
• drastic 英文词源 drastic drastic: see drama drastic (adj.) 1690s, originally medical, "forceful, vigorous, especially in effect on bowels," from Greek drastikos "effective, efficacious; active, violent," from drasteon "(thing) to be done," from dran "to do, act, perform." Sense of "extreme, severe" is first recorded 1808. Related: Drastically . 中文词源 drastic ：急剧的 来自drama, 戏剧。引
• drapery 英文词源 drapery (n.) early 14c., "cloth, textiles," from Old French draperie (12c.) "weaving, cloth-making, clothes shop," from drap (see drape (n.)). From late 14c. as "place where cloth is made; cloth market." Meaning "stuff with which something is draped" is 1680s. 中文词源 drapery ：织物，面料 来自drape, 布匹，帘子。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：
• drape 英文词源 drape drape: [15] The verb drape originally meant ‘weave wool into cloth’. It was borrowed from Old French draper , which was a derivative of drap ‘cloth’ (source of English drab ). This in turn came from late Latin drappus , which was ultimately of Celtic origin. Other offspring of drap which found their way into English are draper [14], drapery [14], and trappings . The use
• dramedy 英文词源 dramedy "A television programme or film in which the comic elements derive mainly from character and plot development", Early 20th century: blend of drama and comedy. 中文词源 dramedy ：正喜剧 来自drama和comedy的合成词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dramedy 词源， dramedy 含义。
• dramaturgy 英文词源 dramaturgy (n.) "composition and production of plays," 1801, from French dramaturgie , from Greek dramatourgia , from drama (genitive dramatos ) + ergos "worker" (see organ ). 中文词源 dramaturgy ：编剧 dramat-, 戏剧。-urg, 工作，创作，词源同work. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dramaturgy 词源， dramaturgy 含义。
• drama 英文词源 drama drama: [17] Etymologically, drama is simply ‘that which is done’ (in that respect it closely resembles act , which has the neutral, general meaning ‘do something’, as well as the more specific ‘perform on stage’). It comes via late Latin drāma from Greek drama , originally ‘deed, action’, and hence ‘play’. This was a derivative of the verb dran ‘do’, who
• dram 英文词源 dram dram: [15] Dram was borrowed from Old French drame or medieval Latin drama , which were variants respectively of dragme or dragma . Both came from drachma , the Latin version of Greek drakhmé . This was used in the Athens of classical times for both a measure of weight (hence the meaning of modern English dram ) and a silver coin (hence modern Greek drakhmē ), in English drachm
• drake 英文词源 drake drake: English has two words drake , but the older, ‘dragon’ [OE] (which comes via prehistoric West Germanic * drako from Latin dracō , source of English dragon ), has now more or less disappeared from general use (it is still employed for a sort of fishing fly). Drake ‘male duck’ [13] probably goes back to (another) prehistoric West Germanic * drako , preserved also in
• drain 英文词源 drain drain: [OE] The underlying meaning of drain seems to be ‘making dry’. It comes ultimately from * draug -, the same prehistoric Germanic base as produced English drought and dry , and in Old English it meant ‘strain through a cloth or similar porous medium’. There then follows a curious gap in the history of the word: there is no written record of its use between about 10
• dragster 英文词源 dragster (n.) 1954, from drag (n.) in the racing sense + -ster , perhaps abstracted from roadster . 中文词源 dragster ：直线加速赛赛车 来自drag俚语，大街，赛道。-ster, 名词后缀。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dragster 词源， dragster 含义。
• dragoon 英文词源 dragoon (n.) 1620s, from French dragon "carbine, musket," because the guns the soldiers carried "breathed fire" like dragons (see dragon ). Also see -oon . dragoon (v.) 1680s, literally "to force by the agency of dragoons" (which were used by the French kings to persecute Protestants), from dragoon (n.). Related: Dragooned ; dragooning . 中文词源 dragoon ：骑兵 来自dragon, 龙，
• dragonfly 英文词源 dragonfly (n.) 1620s, from dragon + fly (n.). 中文词源 dragonfly ：蜻蜓 因其形如小龙而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dragonfly 词源， dragonfly 含义。
• dragon 英文词源 dragon dragon: [13] English acquired dragon via Old French dragon and Latin dracō from Greek drákōn . Originally the word signified simply ‘snake’, but over the centuries this ‘snake’ increased in size, and many terrifying mythical attributes (such as wings and the breathing of fire) came to be added to it, several of them latterly from Chinese sources. The Greek form is us
• dragnet 英文词源 dragnet (n.) Old English drægnet , a net to drag the bottom of a body of water in fishing; see drag (v.) + net (n.). Figurative use is from 1640s; police sense attested by 1894. 中文词源 dragnet ：拉网 drag, 拉。net网。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dragnet 词源， dragnet 含义。
• drag 英文词源 drag drag: [14] Drag has two possible sources, each with equally plausible claims: Old English dragan , source of modern English draw , or the related Old Norse draga . Both go back to a common Germanic source. Of the modern colloquial applications of the word, ‘women’s clothes worn by men’ seems to have originated in 19th-century theatrical slang, in reference to the ‘draggin
• draftsman 英文词源 draftsman (n.) 1660s, variant of draughtsman ; also see draft . 中文词源 draftsman ：起草人 来自draft, 草案。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： draftsman 词源， draftsman 含义。
• draft 英文词源 draft (n.) c. 1500, spelling variant of draught (q.v.) to reflect change in pronunciation. Among the senses that have gone with this form of the word in American English, the meaning "rough copy of a writing" (something "drawn") is attested from 14c.; that of "preliminary sketch from which a final copy is made" is from 1520s; that of "flow of a current of air" is from c. 1770. Of beer
• Dracula 英文词源 Dracula (n.) the vampire from in Bram Stoker's novel (1897). It was a surname of Prince Vlad II of Wallachia (d.1476), and means in Romanian "son of Dracul ," literally "the dragon," from the name and emblem taken by Vlad's father, also named Vlad, c. 1431 when he joined the Order of the Dragon, founded 1418 by Sigismund the Glorious of Hungary to defend the Christian religion from th
• drachma 英文词源 drachma drachma: see dram drachma (n.) 1570s, from Latinized form of Greek drakhme , an Attic coin and weight, probably originally "a handful" (see dram ). Earlier in English as dragme (late 14c.), from Old French dragme , from Medieval Latin dragma . 中文词源 drachma ：德拉克马（希腊货币单位） 来自希腊语drakhme, 握住，满手的，词源同dram.用于货币单位
• drabs 英文词源 silver silver: [OE] The word silver probably originated in Asia Minor. Its unidentified source word was borrowed into prehistoric Germanic as * silubr -, which has evolved into German silber , Dutch zilver , Danish sølf , and English and Swedish silver . Borrowing of the same ancestral form into the Balto-Slavic languages produced Russian serebro , Polish and Serbo-Croat srebro , Lit
• drab 英文词源 drab drab: [16] Drab is a variant of the now obsolete form drap , which was borrowed from Old French drap ‘cloth’ (source also of English drape , draper , and trappings ). It was originally a noun meaning ‘cloth’ in English too, but the beginnings of its transition to the modern English adjective meaning ‘faded and dull’ can be seen in the 17th century. The word came to be
• dozen 英文词源 dozen dozen: [13] Dozen traces its ancestry back to the Latin word for ‘twelve’, duodecim . This was a compound formed from duo ‘two’ and decem ‘ten’. This gradually developed in the postclassical period via * dōdece to * doze , which, with the addition of the suffix - ēna , produced Old French dozeine , source of the English word. = duodenum dozen (n.) c. 1300, from Old
• doze 英文词源 doze (v.) 1640s, probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse dusa "to doze," Danish døse "to make dull," Swedish dialectal dusa "to sleep"); related to Old English dysig "foolish" (see dizzy ). May have existed in dialect earlier than attested date. Related: Dozed ; dozing . As a noun, from 1731. 中文词源 doze ：小睡 词源同dizzy, 发晕，眩晕。引申词义小睡
• doyenne 英文词源 doyenne 1905, from fem. of French doyen (see doyen ). As a type of pear, from 1731. 中文词源 doyenne ：女元老 来自doyen,元老。-enne, 表女性。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： doyenne 词源， doyenne 含义。
• doyen 英文词源 doyen early 15c., from Middle French doyen "commander of ten," from Old French deien (see dean ). 中文词源 doyen ：元老 来自dean的拼写变体，引申词义元老。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： doyen 词源， doyen 含义。
• doxy 英文词源 doxy (n.) "rogue's girlfriend," 1520s, slang, of unknown origin (see dell (n.2)). Liberman says it is probably from Low German dokke "doll," "with the deterioration of meaning from 'sweetheart' and 'wench' to 'whore.'" 中文词源 doxy ：情人，妓女 可能来自Dorothy的昵称。比较同源词doll,dolly. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： doxy 词源， dox
• downy 英文词源 downy (adj.) 1570s, from down (n.1) + -y (2). 中文词源 downy ：绒毛覆盖的 来自down, 绒毛。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： downy 词源， downy 含义。
• downtrodden 英文词源 downtrodden (adj.) 1560s, "stepped on," from down (adv.) + trodden . Figurative use, "oppressed," is from 1590s. 中文词源 downtrodden ：被蹂躏的 down, 向下。trodden, 踩，践踏。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： downtrodden 词源， downtrodden 含义。
• downtown 英文词源 downtown (n.) 1835, from down (adv.) + town . The notion is of suburbs built on heights around a city. 中文词源 downtown ：市中心 通常认为该词来自早期纽约市的规划，在1830年的时候，纽约城区集中在曼哈顿岛南端，后来，随着经济的发展北扩，而up and down对应于地图上北和南。后来，downtown就作为市中心的代称，而u
• downtick 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random aware aware: see ware 中文词源 downtick ：微落 来自早期的股票交易术语。tick，拟声词，打字声，指屏幕上显示的股票行情，uptick即股市上扬，downtick 则股市下降。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： downtick 词源， downtick 含义。
• downscale 英文词源 downscale (v.) 1945, American English, from down (adv.) + scale (v.). From 1966 as an adjective. 中文词源 downscale ：低档的 down, 向下。scale, 档次。即低档的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： downscale 词源， downscale 含义。
• downs 英文词源 downscale (v.) 1945, American English, from down (adv.) + scale (v.). From 1966 as an adjective. downside (n.) 1680s, "underside," from down (adv.) + side . Meaning "drawback, negative aspect" is attested by 1995. downsize (v.) 1986 in reference to companies shedding jobs; earlier (1975) in reference to U.S. automakers building smaller cars and trucks (supposedly a coinage at General
• downlow 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random solve solve: [15] Etymologically, solve means ‘release’, particularly by the payment of debt. It was borrowed from Latin solvere ‘release, unbind, pay’, which was descended from an earlier * seluere . This was a compound verb based on luere ‘loosen, release, pay’, a descendant of the same Indo-European base that prod
• download 英文词源 download 1977 (n.), 1980 (v.), from down (adv.) + load (v.). Related: Downloaded ; downloading . 中文词源 download ：下载 比喻用法，用于计算机术语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： download 词源， download 含义。 download ：(计算机)下载(文件) 词根词缀： down向下 + load加载
• Downing street 英文词源 Downing Street short street in London, named for British diplomat Sir George Downing (c. 1624-1684). It contains the residence of the prime minister (at Number 10), hence its metonymic use for "the British government," attested from 1781. 中文词源 Downing street ：唐宁街，英国政府，英国首相 英国街道名，政府所在地，来自17世纪英国外交官George Downi
• downer 英文词源 downer (n.) 1966 in sense of "barbiturate;" 1970 in sense of "depressing person;" agent noun from down (v.). 中文词源 downer ：镇静药 来自down,向下，镇静。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： downer 词源， downer 含义。
• down and out 英文词源 No matching word found in the dictionary. Word of Random Alsatian Alsatian: [17] Alsatian has been around since at least the late 17th century (although in early use it generally denoted not the Franco-German border province of Alsace but a no-go area in London, near the banks of the Thames, where criminals, vagabonds and prostitutes hung out, which was nicknamed ‘Alsatia’ because
• down 英文词源 down down: Effectively, English now has three distinct words down , but two of them are intimately related: for down ‘to or at a lower place’ [11] originally meant ‘from the hill’ – and the Old English word for hill in this instance was dūn . This may have been borrowed from an unrecorded Celtic word which some have viewed as the ultimate source also of dune [18] (borrowed
• dowel 英文词源 dowel (n.) mid-14c., dule "rim or section of a wheel," perhaps akin to Middle Low German dovel "plug, tap" (of a cask). Modern meaning is first attested 1794. 中文词源 dowel ：暗榫 词源不详。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dowel 词源， dowel 含义。
• dowdy 英文词源 dowdy 1580s (n.), "an aukward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman" [Johnson]; 1670s (adj.), perhaps a diminutive of doue "poorly dressed woman" (early 14c.), which is of uncertain origin. The modern use of dowd (n.) is most likely a back-formation from dowdy . "If plaine or homely, wee saie she is a doudie or a slut" [Barnabe Riche, "Riche his Farewell to Militarie profession," 1581]. You d
• dowager 英文词源 dowager (n.) 1520s, from Middle French douagere "widow with a dower" literally "pertaining to a dower," from douage "dower," from douer "endow," from Latin dotare , from dos (genitive dotis ) "dowry" (see dowry ). 中文词源 dowager ：孀居贵妇 来自古法语douagere, 来自词根don, 给予，词源同data, donate. 用来指孀居贵妇。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词
• dovetail 英文词源 dovetail late 16c. (n.), 1650s (v.), from dove (n.) + tail . So called from resemblance of shape in the tenon or mortise of the joints to that of the bird’s tailfeather display. Related: Dovetailed . 中文词源 dovetail ：鸠尾榫接头，吻合 因这种工具形如鸽尾而得名。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dovetail 词源， dovetail 含义。
• dovecote 英文词源 dovecote (n.) early 15c., from dove (n.) + cote . 中文词源 dovecote ：鸽舍 dove,鸽子。cote,窝，舍。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dovecote 词源， dovecote 含义。
• dove 英文词源 dove (n.) probably from Old English dufe- (found only in compounds), from Proto-Germanic *dubon (cognates: Old Saxon duba , Old Norse dufa , Swedish duva , Middle Dutch duve , Dutch duif , Old High German tuba , German Taube , Gothic -dubo ), perhaps related to words for "dive," in reference to its flight. Originally applied to all pigeons, now mostly restricted to the turtle dove. A
• douse 英文词源 douse (v.) 1550s, "to strike, punch," which is perhaps from Middle Dutch dossen "beat forcefully" or a similar Low German word. Meaning "to strike a sail in haste" is recorded from 1620s; that of "to extinguish (a light)" is from 1785; perhaps influenced by dout (1520s), an obsolete contraction of do out (compare doff, don ). OED regards the meaning "to plunge into water, to throw wat
• dour 英文词源 dour (adj.) mid-14c., "severe," from Scottish and northern England dialect, probably from Latin durus "hard" (see endure ); sense of "gloomy, sullen" is late 15c. 中文词源 dour ：冷酷的 来自拉丁语durus, 硬的，词源同endure, tree. 引申词义冷酷的。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dour 词源， dour 含义。 dour ：不爱讲话的，阴沉
• doula 英文词源 doula (n.) by 1980, from Greek doulos (fem. doule ) "slave." 中文词源 doula ：产妇陪侍 来自希腊语doulos, 仆人。后用于指陪侍产妇。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： doula 词源， doula 含义。
• doughty 英文词源 doughty doughty: [11] Doughty originally had the rather general sense ‘worthy, virtuous’ – ‘brave’ is a secondary specialization. It comes from late Old English dohtig , an unexplained variant of an earlier Old English dyhtig , which appears to have derived ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic * duhtiz ‘ability, capacity’. This in turn came from a verb * dugan ‘be ab
• dough 英文词源 dough dough: [OE] Dough is an ancient word, with related forms scattered throughout the Indo- European languages. It goes back to an Indo- European base * dheigh -, which meant ‘mould, form, knead’, and produced Latin fingere ‘mould’ and figūra ‘figure’ (source between them of English effigy , faint , feign , fiction , figment , and figure ), Sanskrit dih - ‘smear’, G
• douche 英文词源 douche douche: see duct douche (n.) 1766, "jet of water," from French douche (16c.), from Italian doccia "shower," from docciare "to spray," from Latin ductionem "a leading," from ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Meaning "vaginal cleansing" is from 1833. The verb is first attested 1838. Related: Douched ; douching . 中文词源 douche ：灌水法 来自意大利语doccia, 沐浴，洒
• doubt 英文词源 doubt doubt: [13] English acquired the verb doubt from Old French doter or duter , a descendant of Latin dubitāre ‘waver, be uncertain’ (the b was reintroduced from the Latin spelling in the 15th century). Dubitāre was closely related to Latin dubius ‘uncertain’ (ultimate source of English dubious [16]), which appears to have been based on duo ‘two’, and thus to have mea
• doubloon 英文词源 doubloon (n.) 1620s, from French doublon (16c.) and directly from Spanish doblon a gold coin, augmentative of doble "double" (coin so called because it was worth twice as much as the Spanish gold pistole ), from Latin duplus "double" (see double (adj.)). Also see -oon . 中文词源 doubloon ：达布隆（西班牙旧时的金币） 来自double, 双倍。因这种金币为普通金币
• doublet 英文词源 doublet (n.) early 14c. as a type of men's garment, from Old French doublet (12c.), from diminutive of duble (see double (adj.)). From 1550s as "one of two things that are alike." 中文词源 doublet ：紧身短上衣，对联 来自double, 双重，相对。用来指成对之物。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： doublet 词源， doublet 含义。
• doublespeak 英文词源 doublespeak (n.) 1957, from double (adj.) + speak , coined on model of doublethink in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (the language in that book was Newspeak ). 中文词源 doublespeak ：模棱两可的话 即两种说法都可以说通，模棱两可的话。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： doublespeak 词源， doublespeak 含义。
• double entendre 英文词源 double entendre also double-entendre , 1670s, from French (where it was rare and is now obsolete), literally "a twofold meaning," from entendre (now entente ) "to hear, to understand, to mean," from Latin intendere (see intend ). The proper Modern French phrase would be double entente , but the phrase has become established in English in its old form. 中文词源 double entendre ：双
• double Dutch 英文词源 Double Dutch "gibberish," 1864 ( High Dutch for "incomprehensible language" is recorded from 1789); from double (adj.) + Dutch . 中文词源 double Dutch ：晦涩的言语 因英国人认为荷兰语难懂而造词。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： double Dutch 词源， double Dutch 含义。
• double 英文词源 double double: [13] Double comes via Old French doble or duble from Latin duplus (direct source of English duple [16]). This was a compound adjective formed from duo ‘two’ and an Indo- European element * pl - which denoted ‘folding’ (it is present also in English fold and ply ). The same semantic elements went to make up English twofold , and indeed duplex (see DUPLICATE), and
• dotty 英文词源 dotty (adj.) 1812, "full of dots," from dot (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "silly" is from c. 1400, in dotypolle "dotty poll" (i.e. "dotty head"), in which case the first element is from dote (v.). 中文词源 dotty ：迷恋，疯癫的 来自dote, 糊涂。引申词义迷恋，着迷。比较infatuate. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dotty 词源， dotty 含义。
• dote 英文词源 dote dote: [13] English may have borrowed dote from Middle Dutch doten ‘be silly’, but its ultimate origins are not known. To begin with it meant ‘be silly’ in English too (a sense now mainly preserved in its various derivatives), and ‘show excessive fondness’ did not develop until the 15th century. Related forms include dotage [14], where the notion of ‘simple-mindednes
• dotage 英文词源 dotage (n.) "the state of one who dotes," c. 1300; see dote + -age . Originally of all sorts of mental impairment, not just that resulting from old age. First recorded late 14c. for "senility." 中文词源 dotage ：年老糊涂 来自dote, 糊涂。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dotage 词源， dotage 含义。
• dot 英文词源 dot dot: [OE] The underlying meaning of dot seems to be ‘small lump or raised mark’. In Old English (in which there is only a single record of its use) it meant ‘head of a boil’, and it could well be related to English tit ‘nipple’. The word disappears from written texts between the 11th and the 16th centuries, and resurfaces in the sense ‘small lump’. The modern meani
• dossier 英文词源 dossier (n.) 1880, from French dossier "bundle of papers," from dos "back" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin dossum , variant of Latin dorsum "back" (see dorsal ). Supposedly so called because the bundle bore a label on the back, or possibly from resemblance of the bulge in a mass of bundled papers to the curve of a back. Old French dossiere meant "back-strap, ridge strap (of a horse's harnes
• dosser 英文词源 endorse endorse: [16] To endorse something is literally to write ‘on the back’ of it. The word comes from medieval Latin indorsāre , a compound verb formed from the prefix in - ‘in’ and dorsum ‘back’ (source of English dorsal , doss , and dossier ). (An earlier English version of the word was endoss [14], acquired via Old French endosser , which died out in the 17th centu
• doss 英文词源 doss doss: [18] The use of doss in senses associated with ‘lying down on a bed’ comes from an earlier notion of ‘lying on one’s back’. In the 18th century the word was dorse , a borrowing from Latin dorsum ‘back’, but by the 19th century it had become doss , perhaps owing to the influence of French dos . Other English words from the same source include endorse , the adje
• dosh 英文词源 dosh "Money", 1950s: of unknown origin. 中文词源 dosh ：钱 词源不详。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dosh 词源， dosh 含义。
• dose 英文词源 dose dose: [15] A dose is literally ‘that which is given to one’ – etymologically and semantically, it is a parallel formation to donation . It comes via French dose and late Latin dosis from Greek dósis , a derivative of the verb didónai ‘give’ (which is related to English date , donate , etc). It originally meant simply ‘giving, gift’, but was used by Greek physician
• dosage 英文词源 dosage (n.) 1867; see dose + -age , perhaps on model of French dosage (1812). 中文词源 dosage ：剂量 来自dose, 剂量。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dosage 词源， dosage 含义。
• dosa 英文词源 dosa "(In southern Indian cooking) a pancake made from rice flour and ground pulses, typically served with a spiced vegetable filling", From Tamil tōcai . 中文词源 dosa ：多莎饼 来自南印度语。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dosa 词源， dosa 含义。
• dory 英文词源 dory (n.1) "small, flat-bottomed boat," 1709, American English, perhaps from a West Indian or Central American Indian language. dory (n.2) type of edible fish, mid-15c., from Old French doree , originally the fem. past participle of dorer "to gild," from Latin deauratus , past participle of deaurare , from de- , here probably intensive, + aurare "to gild," from aurum (see aureate ). S
• dorsal 英文词源 dorsal dorsal: see doss dorsal (adj.) early 15c., from Old French dorsal (14c.) or directly from Medieval Latin dorsalis , corresponding to Latin dorsualis "of the back," from dorsum "back," which is of uncertain origin. 中文词源 dorsal ：背部的 来自拉丁语dorsum, 背，词源同endorse. 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dorsal 词源， dorsal 含义。
• dorp 英文词源 dorp "A small rural town or village (often used to suggest that a place is backward or unimpressive)", Dutch, 'village' (see thorp ). 中文词源 dorp ：小镇，村庄 来自荷兰语，词源同thorp,村庄。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dorp 词源， dorp 含义。
• dormouse 英文词源 dormouse (n.) early 15c., possibly from Anglo-French *dormouse "tending to be dormant" (from stem of dormir "to sleep," see dormer ), with the second element mistaken for mouse ; or perhaps it is from a Middle English dialectal compound of mouse and Middle French dormir . The rodent is inactive in winter. French dormeuse , fem. of dormeur "sleeper" is attested only from 17c. 中文词源
• dormitory 英文词源 dormitory (n.) mid-15c., from Latin dormitorium "sleeping place," from dormire "to sleep" (see dormant ). Old English had slæpern "dormitory," with ending as in barn . 中文词源 dormitory ：集体宿舍 来自PIE*drem，睡觉，休息。 该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版： dormitory 词源， dormitory 含义。 dormitory ：集体宿舍   词根词缀： -d
• dormant 英文词源 dormant dormant: [14] Like dormitory and dormer , dormant comes ultimately from Latin dormīre ‘sleep’, which is related to Sanskrit drā - ‘sleep’ and Russian dremat ’ ‘doze’. Dormant was borrowed from French dormant , the present participle of dormir ‘sleep’, while dormitory [15] comes from Latin dormītōrium , a derivative of the past participle of dormīre . Dor